User:Clàudia/personal-research

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Concepts behind glitch

  1. Obviousness of the digital medium
  2. Randomness
  3. Tension between reduction and excess [1]
  4. Tension between reification and critique [2]
  5. Tension between function an failure [3]
  6. The more intensified a technical system, the more error and breakdown figure as potent metaphors of dysfunction and anti- communication in material critiques of the media. Thus a paradox lies at the heart of the electronic glitch: the more one attempts to control, to functionalize culture through new technologies, the more does one also proliferate glitches and errors. [4]

Artists who use glitch

  1. Paul B Davis
  2. Rosa Menkman
  3. Sabato Visconty
  4. Nick Briz
  5. Nam June Paik

Reflections

The glitched images I have been making, are made by changing the code of the image as if it was text. Therefore, when the image is decompressed, it looks different. This is not a glitch in the technology. However, it is a glitch in the aesthetic of the image.

Kinds of glitch

Here I am trying to detect different kind of Glitches:

  1. Technical glitch
  2. Aesthetic glitch
  3. Conceptual glitch
  4. Functional glitch

Text references

  1. Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West

Visual references

  1. Paul B Davis video that mixes Umbrella by Rihanna with Zombie by Cranberries

Videos about glitch

  1. The Art of Glitch | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios

Glitch for comercial purposes

  1. Kanye West, Welcome To Heartbreak ft. Kid Cudi